School camp Nienstedt

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The Nienstedt school camp , formerly known as the Sophienhof and sometimes the Schlepperhaus , is a property that is now used as a camp site in the Deister near Nienstedt , a district of Bad Münder am Deister in Lower Saxony . In the 1940s it served as a children's hospital.

Entrance to the Nienstedt school camp

history

In 1902, the Sparkasse custodian Ludwig Schlepper from Hanover had a villa built at the entrance to the Walterbach Valley west of the village of Nienstedt in what was then the Springe district . He named the building the Sophienhof after his wife's name . The following year, the early retiree had a fish pond dug between the building and the Walterbach .

The then Herschel School in Hanover acquired the property in 1926. The villa was given a three - storey extension, clad in natural stone, and from September 4, 1926, served the school as a school camp.

Because of the air raids on Hanover in the Second World War , a large part of the Herschel students were housed in the Landheim and taught by a few accompanying teachers as part of the children's area from spring 1941 to early 1942.

From October 16, 1943 until 1951, the building , which was supplemented with a barrack, served as an alternative hospital for the Hanover Children's Hospital . The patients came from the city of Hanover and the districts of Hanover , Springe, Schaumburg , Nienburg and the northern district of Hildesheim . Until the liberation in 1945, it was also used as a foster home for children of foreigners from mothers from labor camps such as the Hanover-Mühlenberg satellite camp . After that, many of the children came from the displaced persons camps . A total of 1248 children died in the alternative hospital, most of them were buried by their relatives in their hometowns. About 90, including 18 foreign citizens, were buried in an "emergency cemetery" in the Deister. This cemetery of the forgotten children has been designated as a war cemetery since 2013 .

In 1945 the Herschel School became part of the "United Leibniz and Herschel School", which from 1947 was only called the Leibniz School in Hanover . After the children's sanatorium had gradually relocated its hospital operations back to Hanover a few years after the end of the war, the property in Nienstedt served the Leibniz School again as a country home from 1951. The school sends its students in three years to the Nienstedt school camp for one week each class. During the time not used in this way, the premises are rented out.

description

The 2.5 hectare site is located on the outskirts of Nienstedt, south of Kreisstraße 61. Since the regional reform in Lower Saxony in 1973, the border between the Hameln-Pyrmont district and the neighboring district of Grafschaft Schaumburg has been running since 1977 with the Schaumburg district on the western and northern edge of the property.

Since the expansion in 1926, there have been two common rooms and four dormitories as well as rooms for teachers in the Landheim and the apartment of the administrator family in the original building. After dividing the dormitories with partition walls, there will be a total of 65 beds for students as well as three bedrooms and a lounge for teachers in eight rooms of various sizes.

The former location of the hospital barracks has been replaced by a small asphalt field for sports such as basketball or football. Occasionally it also serves as a makeshift parking space. Around 1970 a small sports hall was built on the Deisterhang, mostly used as a table tennis room, with a workshop in the basement. In later years, other buildings such as a barbecue hut and a bakery were built on the Landheim grounds.

The school camp Nienstedt was selected in 1991 by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education as the location of an environmental station. This enables class trips with a focus on environmental education and teacher training . The Landheim also accommodates participants in the Voluntary Ecological Year . The pond created by Ludwig Schlepper in 1903, like the fish ponds on the neighboring property, has developed into a heavily frequented spawning water for common toads and newts . To protect the amphibians, the section of Kreisstraße 61 that passes Landheim will be closed for around five weeks at night in spring.

literature

  • Udo Mierau: The Sophienhof in Nienstedt . In: Local group Bad Münder of the Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV (Hrsg.): Der Söltjer . tape 21 , 1996, pp. 67-69 .

Web links

Commons : Schullandheim Nienstedt  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Achim Linck: Cemetery of the forgotten children. www.dewezet.de, March 23, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c d Herbert Krieg, Manfred von Allwörden, Ulrich Manthey: Landheim Nienstedt. in: Bad Münder and its districts . Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b The Nienstedt school camp. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Georg Kirchhoff: The Herschels School - it existed before! Archived from the original on April 25, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Bernhard Gelderblom: The forgotten children's graves of the Nienstedter forest cemetery. Association for regional cultural and contemporary history Hameln eV, July 23, 2015, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Cool: The Leibniz School has its own school camp. www.leibnizschule-hannover.de, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The grounds of the school camp. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ The main building. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ The sports field. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The arcade. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  11. ↑ The workshop. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  12. ↑ The bakery. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Learning location for education for sustainable development. www.schullandheim-nienstedt.de, accessed on September 11, 2017 .
  14. ^ Matthias Großmann, Gerd-Dieter Walter: Amphibians. in: Amphibian protection in Bad Münder . (No longer available online.) NABU Hameln-Pyrmont, 2012, archived from the original on September 12, 2017 ; accessed on September 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nabu-hamelnpyrmont.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 33.6 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 12 ″  E